Society girl Lady Victoria Hervey has revealed that she's frozen her eggs after realising at the last minute how much she wants kids.

Opening up about the gruelling reality of the procedure - which involves birth control pills, hormone injections and invasive procedures - the former socialite, 41, admitted it has left her feeling like an 'emotional wreck.'

“Just before Christmas I had six eggs removed from my ovaries and frozen in a fertility clinic. I became bloated, light-headed and had very little energy... I was an emotional wreck. I’d start crying out of nowhere. Any movie I watched, I had tears streaming," she told the Mail on Sunday.

The former It Girl has frozen her eggs as she's realised she wants to be a mum (Image: PA)

“At the end of this month I intend to go through the exhausting procedure again… It will, I hope, fill what has become rather a hole in my life.”

She shelled out £11,000 for the treatment at a Beverly Hills fertility centre after realising that despite having not been in a serious relationship for a number of years, she wanted to have a family of her own.

After partying hard in her twenties and thirties, she admitted that she didn’t feel maternal until now, possibly influenced by her father who was 61 when she was born.

She spent her 20s partying (Image: Rex)

Lady Victoria Hervey wants to use the frozen eggs by the age of 45 (Image: WireImage)

“Instead of being like Bridget Jones and sitting at home with a bottle of wine, depressed about not finding a boyfriend, I decided to do something practical about it," she said.

But she hopes the money – and the emotional and physical cost – will be worth it.

After posting to Facebook about what she’d gone through, several of Victoria’s friends admitted they had done the same.

She hopes she can use the eggs at a later date – but before she is 45 - and is considering using a sperm donor or a male friend as the father if she doesn’t meet the right man in the next few years.